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Rahman supporters defend mayor against 'takeover'

By Dan Peters | 13 November 2014

Respect MP George Galloway has defended besieged Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman at a rally in ...

Council's senior management team praised

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

Northamptonshire CC’s senior management team has been praised by the independent chair of the cou...

Liverpool chief quizzed over Rotherham child scandal

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

Liverpool City Council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald has been quizzed by Mayor Joe Anderson over...

Playing it safe?

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

Dan Peters reports from a recent round table in which chief executives weighed up the biggest imp...

Opposition defeated over plan to bring legal team back in house

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

Opposition calls for Barnet LBC’s legal department to be brought back in-house after a report cri...

Call for fiscal and political devolution to come 'hand in hand'

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

Fiscal and political devolution must come ‘hand in hand’, The Infrastructure Forum has said in it...

Senior officers criticise Growth Deals

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

Senior council officers have called for Growth Deals to go ‘much further’ in future after critici...

LGPS report is 'proving its worth'

By Dan Peters | 12 November 2014

The publication of the first annual report for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has bee...

Report boosts council's social impact bond

By Dan Peters | 11 November 2014

The world’s first social impact bond to fund children’s services has been boosted by a report loo...

Directors may turn to crowdfunding to improve open spaces

By Dan Peters | 11 November 2014

Finance directors who have had their budgets slashed by central government could be forced to tur...